<p>Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Johnson | 2005-10-27 | ||
| Cynicism | 2005-10-20 | ||
| Mammals | 2005-10-13 | ||
| The Field of the Cloth of Gold | 2005-10-06 | ||
| Magnetism | 2005-09-29 | ||
| Marx | 2005-07-14 | ||
| Marlowe | 2005-07-07 | ||
| Merlin | 2005-06-30 | ||
| The KT Boundary | 2005-06-23 | ||
| Paganism in the Renaissance | 2005-06-16 | ||
| The Scriblerus Club | 2005-06-09 | ||
| Renaissance Maths | 2005-06-02 | ||
| The French Revolution's reign of terror | 2005-05-26 | ||
| Beauty | 2005-05-19 | ||
| Abelard and Heloise | 2005-05-05 | ||
| Perception and the Senses | 2005-04-28 | ||
| The Aeneid | 2005-04-21 | ||
| Archaeology and Imperialism | 2005-04-14 | ||
| Alfred and the Battle of Edington | 2005-04-07 | ||
| John Ruskin | 2005-03-31 |